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17世纪的关原之战，德川家族一统天下已成大势所趋，但是丰臣氏依然存有较强的实力。此后的日子里，双方的忍者集团爆发连番对决，平静的表象下战况激烈。在两大家族之外，始终宣称保持中立的真田家则成为整盘棋的关键。某日，隶属真田家的猿飞佐助（高橋幸治 饰）遇见浪人稻村光秋（戸浦六宏 饰），从稻村口中得知，德川家两大忍者头目之一的郡山带刀（岡田英次 饰）叛逃，并有可能投靠丰臣氏。为免军情泄漏，战局发生变化，德川发布了针对郡山的诛杀令。与此同时，丰臣也派出密探接应郡山。佐助准备通过的诹访城即将成为影响战局的重要战场……本片根据中田耕治的原作改编。

*Shinjuku Mad* was one ofKoji Wakamatsu's six films from 1970. Grim and gritty, stark and steady, burdened with anti-moralizing, generously padded with sex, and totally redeemed by a soundtrack that needs to be released NOW. I knew nothing about this film, loading it up on to my laptop, and every last one of this film's sixty-sixty minutes kept me riveted.Bear with me. The film opens with the band cycling through a jazzy rave-up, the black and images depict dead Japanese throughout a modern city. From the alleyways of the slums, to center of the park, you catch glimpses of bodies everywhere. This introduction is capped off by a lingering shot of a blood-soaked naked woman, face down. By this point, the band has reached a sort of peak. There's a cut, the band changes the direction of the song a bit, and then we're treated to a series of exterior shots from downtown, the lunch hour, maybe. You see a lot of storefronts and stairwells, people moving about. All of the people in these splices are done in negative image.What follows can only be described as harrowing. After the credits, the reel switches to color. We're treated to the on-screen stabbing of a young man in a toga, his attackers strip his special lady-friend of her toga, spend about two minutes smearing her breasts with still-warm blood, and then take turns raping her. She doesn't seem to put up much of a fight. The scene is lensed with all of the enthusiasm of a television spot for a whole foods market.Well, that's a fucked up way to start a movie. If you're still reading, I'll have you know the brutality eases up a little, but the camera's tendency to seek out each scene's more lurid details is relentless. The band never lets up, either. Another constant feature of the film is the protagonist's alienation from society. That's a pretty dated-concept, in a way. This film is cashing in on what could loosely be called the Existential demographic in 1970's Japan. Parts of it could have been written by Oe. Others by Mishima. It definitely, at times, addresses a bit of that lingering air of revolution, but more on that later.The father of the kid stabbed in Technicolor shows up in the nest reel, in the same apartment his son was murdered in. This confused, grieving father asks a totally baked Shoko Asahara for information about the events leading up to his son's death. The long-haired no-goodnik is toking on a Sharpie-sized doobie. He gets so fucking high he passes out and the dad is left there in the empty apartment, getting a major contact-buzz.So, the plot is basically that kind of exchange in larger and larger settings, intercut with glorious shots of the disillusioned father walking through industrial slums. The father, searching for the "Why" to his son's death goes on his quest and pisses just about everyone he comes into contact with off. He goes into subway stations and totally kills some beatniks' buzzes. Then he bullies a Hare Krishna ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR and his belly-dancing percussionist at a park. Then he heads off to a bar, and we're treated to what must have been Tokyo's Greatest Garage Band getting low-down and sleazy here. This scene pretty much sums up what the film is about. As you dig the scuzz and the fuzz, the camera catches all manner of degeneracy and wanton reefer-use. And the bar has no less than three groups of people making out. And they get excessive with the groping.Eventually, the father catches the ringleader of the vicious band of murderer-rapists. "Shinjuku Mad," is his name. After an unbelievably long and convoluted exchange between the protagonist and Shinjuku Mad, it comes out that Mad and the boys are rebelling against all of Japan. It's open season on everyone but them. His son was only a casualty, nothing personal. Their intent is to go on rebelling against society through random acts of violence against people and property.After going through all the trouble of finding Shinjuku Mad, the old man's mind is blown by revolution for revolution's sake. After a few pummellings, he manages to turn the fight around. He winds up leaving with a nude girl that had been tied to a post for the entire scene.He goes back to the apartment his son was murdered in to find his special lady-friend naked with six other dope-smoking cats grooving on free love and blue balls.He decides he's happier with Shinjuku Mad alive and kicking, the band is at another one of its high points, and the camera pans out to the railroad yard, telephones wires, and the bare sides of modern buildings.That was Japan, thirty-seven years ago.

室生犀星の小説を翻案した成瀬巳喜男監督の名作。高名な作家の娘が文学青年と結婚するが、夫が自分の才能を信じて売れない小説を書き続けるため生活が困窮し、夫婦仲も冷めていくという物語を成瀬独特の淡々とした作風で描いている。暗く起伏に乏しい内容でありながら、その映画的展開は圧倒的に素晴らしい。名声は天地の開きがありながら、同じ志を抱く作家としてのライバル意識を燃やす杏子の父と夫が、庭に隔てた障子越しに執筆中の互いの姿を気にし合うシーンなど、さりげないドラマの肌合いを捉える成瀬演出の白眉である。物語とは直接関係のない細部の卓抜な描写も印象的。

下雨天，有人说是天空在哭泣，也有人说那是邂逅的天气，它是如此的浪漫，富有感情，许多故事都是从这里开始的……一个下着雨的夏末，热爱音乐的乐团“给一个说法吧”主唱阿伦（柯有伦 饰）在市集中汉服摊位遇到美丽的大学生雨婕（韩雨洁 饰），雨婕清新脱俗的气质让阿伦一眼就烙在心中，那股气息令阿伦想起那段大学时期最美丽的遗憾——Sharon（徐若瑄 饰）。阿伦和雨婕两人的感情渐渐萌芽之际，阿伦的乐团却因为唱片公司的决策使得团员间闹不愉快，雨婕想帮忙分担阿伦的压力与烦恼，却又无力可施，反而造成两人间的不快。阿伦又在此时遇到现已成为摇滚天后的Sharon，两人再次见面，回忆点滴浮现，两人情愫再度悄然而生……此时，阿伦的好友画家周以乐（释小龙 饰）将这三角关系全看在眼里。对于雨婕，他有着一份特殊情感，原来四年前……